REHABILITATION SHORT-TERM TRAINING

This program supports special seminars, institutes, workshops and other short-term
courses in technical matters relating to the delivery of vocational, medical,
social, and psychological rehabilitation services. Projects under this program
are announced in the Federal
Register in areas of special national or regional significance to
the delivery of rehabilitation services.

This project will implement an interstate training coalition to address the
training needs of personnel who provide direct vocational rehabilitation and
psychiatric rehabilitation services to individuals with serious mental illness.
The project will address four objectives.

conduct a series of 10 quarterly training workshops in each of six states
that address the core competencies of rehabilitation service design and provision
for persons with serious mental illness;

assist states in the development of internal capacity for ongoing training
and technical assistance through development of an eight-person training team
within each state;

develop and broadcast four satellite teleconferences, providing access to
state of the art information and training to rural-based provider agencies,
consumer and advocacy organizations, and other groups; and

develop a regional newsletter and a resource lending library for agencies
and organizations with the six-state region.

Grantee:

University of ArizonaFamily & Comm. Medicine/Comm. Rehab. Division816 East University Blvd.Tucson, AZ 85719

Phone:

602-792-3542

Grant:

H246B50004

Start Date:

10/01/95

Duration:

36 months

Director:

Michael Shafer, Ph.D.

Region:

09

This project will implement an interstate training coalition to address the
training needs of personnel who provide direct vocational rehabilitation and
psychiatric rehabilitation services to individuals with serious mental illness.
The project will address four objectives.

conduct a series of 10 quarterly training workshops in each of six states
that address the core competencies of rehabilitation service design and provision
for persons with serious mental illness;

assist states in the development of internal capacity for ongoing training
and technical assistance through development of an eight-person training team
within each state;

develop and broadcast four satellite teleconferences, providing access to
state of the art information and training to rural-based provider agencies,
consumer and advocacy organizations, and other groups; and

develop a regional newsletter and a resource lending library for agencies
and organizations with the six-state region.

The overall goal of this multi-state comprehensive and multi-tiered joint mental
health/vocational rehabilitation training project is to promote the development
and knowledge and skills, resources and linkages that will enhance the vocational
rehabilitation of persons with severe psychiatric disabilities. The project
will establish a training collaboration involving the New England Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Program, the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston
University and the Center on Promoting Employment (RRTC) at Boston's Childrens
Hospital in developing interrelated training interventions designed to address
the identified training needs and priorities. These interventions include leadership
training, network training and a series of teleconferences on issues related
to psychiatric vocational rehabilitation practices and programs.

Grantee:

National Federation of the Blind1800 Johnson StreetBaltimore, MD

Phone:

410-659-9314

Grant:

H246C6000

Start Date:

10/01/96

Duration:

36 months

Director:

Anthony Cobb

Region:

03

This project is aimed at personnel responsible for stimulating Braille literacy
among clients in rehabilitation agencies for the blind. Through this project,
rehabilitation personnel will improve their effectiveness through an integrated
program of training in Braille in three different levels. As a consequence they
will be able to set more constructive goals for the students they teach. The
project offers:

This project presents a comprehensive Braille novice-to-expert instructional
program offered completely via the Internet/World Wide Web (WWW). The program
offers all aspects of Braille at self-paced timing in the home or work place.
By combining electronic technologies, quality materials, and expert instructors,
the program has as its goal the provision of a complete Braille instructional
program to all types of consumers nationwide, who have an interest in some or
all aspects of Braille codes. The project expects to provide efficiency and
economy of effort over traditional workshops and training programs in that the
courses will be available to large numbers of students nationally without the
need for them to travel or disrupt their normal work schedules.

The Regional Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program at Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale, provides rehabilitation personnel at all levels within
public rehabilitation agencies, client assistance projects, centers for independent
living, and the Section 130 Native American Rehabilitation Programs with relevant
knowledge, skills, and mastery of new program developments to enhance their
effectiveness as service providers to individuals with disabilities in Region
V ( Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin).

Under this grant, the National Association of Protection & Advocacy Systems
plans, develops, coordinates and conducts national, multi-regional and regional
training programs and provides technical assistance to individual Client protection
programs (CAPs) and staff on an as-needed basis. The primary goal of this project
is to increase the number of skilled professionals by maintaining and upgrading
the knowledge and skills of personnel currently employed by CAPs and by addressing
the training needs of newly hired staff.